History maker: Rafa

"In perhaps ending what might be called the Federer Era, and certainly ending Federer's string of 65 consecutive grass-court victories, 40 here at the All-England Club, Nadal, 22, became the first person since Bjorn Borg in 1980 to take both the French Open, on the red clay, and Wimbledon, on the turf."
By Art Spander
The Sports Xchange/CBSSports.com




'I tried everything' -- Federer.

India vs. Sri lanka, Asia Cup , 3rd July Match

It was 300^th incidence, when a team has posted a 300 plus score in a ODI, when India did a convincing run-chase against Sri Lanka. Interesting, first of such feat was way back in 1975, when England score a plus 300 score against India in that year world-cup

Spain defeat Italy on penalties at Euro 2008

Trivia: Spain had lost a quarter-final at a major tournament on penalties on this exact date: June 22. Plus they had never before beaten Italy at either the World Cup or European Championships and on three previous occasions over the last 22 years.

EURO 2008 - Trivia.................Made in INDIA T-shirts for UEFA 2008

Udhay Shankar's Sree SantoshGarments Private Ltd. bagged the orders from a textile firm in UK for making 1.2 million t-shirts for the EURO Cup 2008.


Their past history:-
"In 1986, when Uday Shankar and his elder brother C. Chandramohan lost their jobs in a spinning mill, they started their own knitwear factory, with a meagre investment of Rs.100,000 and just four workers. Today the two brothers, both school dropouts, own a well-equipped spinning mill, dyeing and tailoring units and their company notched a turnover of Rs.966 million in the last fiscal."

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Beijing Olympic Medals

All the Olympic medals are 70mm in diameter and 6mm in thickness. The design is inspired by “bi” ", China's ancient jade piece inscribed with dragon pattern. In early China, “bi” was used for ritual purpose.

Cloud of Promise

In order to take the mileage from their branded Olympic touch, Lenovo has released the “Cloud of Promise” laptops and USB drives.

Olympics-branded Digital camera

In their last year to be the Olympic sponsor, as comapny says, Kodak has launched an Olympics-branded digital camera.

Barcelona, Chelsea join Bharti's club for football academy

Bharti Enterprises who along with AIFF is in the process of establishing a world-class football academy in Goa will now get support from some of the biggies like: FC Barcelona , Manchester United and Chelsea
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Euro 2008 ball

This ball is been constructed from a 14 panels using revolutionary thermal bonding technology which combined with the new PSC-Texture™ surface structure result into a perfect handling and thus allows the players good ball control.







EURO 2004
The ball at the last EURO was named adidas Roteiro after the log book used by Vasco da Gama, the famous Portuguese discoverer.